DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Enhanced-Use Lease (EUL) of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Real Property for the Development of a Transitional Housing Facility on a 1-Acre Parcel at the George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center (VAMC) in Salt Lake City, UT

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to enter into an Enhanced-Use Lease.

SUMMARY: The Secretary of VA intends to enter into an EUL on a 1-acre parcel of land at the George E. Wahlen VAMC in Salt Lake City, Utah. The selected lessee will finance, design, develop, construct, manage, maintain and operate the EUL development. As consideration for the lease, the lessee will be required to build, operate, and maintain a transitional housing facility; provide preference and priority placement for homeless Veterans and Veterans at risk of homelessness; and provide a

Title 38 U.S.C. 8161et seq.states that the Secretary may enter into an enhanced-use lease if he determines that implementation of a business plan proposed by the Under Secretary for Health for applying the consideration under such a lease for the provision of medical care and services would result in a demonstrable improvement of services to eligible Veterans in the geographic service-delivery area within which the property is located. This project meets this requirement.